Attorney Liu Ming has been focusing on IP dispute resolution in China. Her practice mainly covers trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, copyrights, patents, domain names, IP contract disputes, and negotiating and drafting various IP-related agreements.
She had served in judicial organs for a long time and participated in the trials of many difficult and complicated cases, including the civil cases of software copyright infringement filed by Microsoft, Adobe, Rhino Software, and Alto; the civil and criminal cases of trademark infringement filed by Louis Vuitton Malletier, GUCCIO GUCCI, and Burberry; the criminal case of copyright infringement of ISO and IEC international standard documents committed by Wang’s (2014 Shanghai Top Ten Typical Copyright Cases); the case of infringement of reproduction right of works filed by Animation International (Doraemon); and the case of dispute over patent rights filed by Xu Hua against Apple.
She has also provided a large number of domestic and foreign clients with legal services in relation to IP, unfair competition, as well as IP transfer and authorization, etc., including litigation on infringement of exclusive trademark rights, trademark objection proceeding, trademark invalidation proceeding, litigation on copyright infringement (including computer software), unfair competition disputes, and trade secret disputes, as well as criminal cases involving computer software development contracts, technology cooperation contracts, copyright transfer, cooperation contracts and trademark and copyright.
Clients to whom she provided IP legal services include Alibaba Group, Ant Group, DingTalk Group, Bilibili, Wish, CIB FINTECH, EMU, Lotus Cars, Jaguar Land Rover, Human Horizons, CAA, Ennead Architects, Spreadtrum, Medtronic, SAP, KAKAO Friends, Gymboree, Meione, Lenzing Group, Roche, Ping An Group, Spreadtrum, and CNOOC.
Civil dispute mediator of Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Center
2022 – to date, SGLA LAW FIRM, Counsel
2019 – 2022, King & Wood Mallesons Shanghai Office, Associate
2016 - 2019，Shanghai Intellectual Property Court
2013 - 2016，Shanghai Yangpu District People's court
I.Trademark cases
1)Provided daily legal advice to and handled cases on behalf of Alibaba Group in relation to third-party infringement of Alibaba Group's trademarks and unfair competition
2)Provided daily legal advice to and handled civil and criminal cases on behalf of Ant Group in relation to third-party infringement of Ant Group's trademarks
3)Represented DingTalk Group to handle the case of dispute over infringement of well-known trademarks
4)Represented PATEO and SAIC-GM-Wuling to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement and unfair competition
5)Represented Crea Union to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement cases
6)Represented Meione to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement
7)Represented Yiu Fung to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement
8)Handled for Baidu the issues related to third-party infringement of trademark rights
9)Provided Unilever with legal risk analysis on product appearance infringement
10)Provided Johnson & Johnson with legal analysis on trademark infringement
11)Provided Lotus Cars with legal analysis on trademark infringement
12)Provided HEYTEA with legal services in the well-known trademark
13)Provided Ping An Group with legal analysis on trademark infringement
14)Provided Lenzing Group for the legal rights defense project against the trademark infringement
II.Unfair competition cases
1)Represented Ele.me to handle the case of dispute over unfair competition involving the “choose one from two” policy
2)Represented an e-commerce platform to handle the unfair competition civil case and administrative reporting involving the “choose one from two” policy
3)Represented Crea Union to handle the case of dispute over unfair competition arising from a malicious action
4)Represented an e-commerce website to handle the case of dispute over infringement of corporate name right
5)Represented a valve company to handle the case of dispute over false advertising
6)Represented a chemical company to handle the case of dispute over false advertising and commercial defamation on behalf
7)Handled for Cainiao Group the complaints of commercial defamation on online platform
III.Trade secret cases (technological secrets or operational information)
1)Represented Medtronic to handle the case of dispute over trade secrete infringement
2)Represented MEDIDIAN to handle the case of dispute over trade secrete infringement
3)Represented Akzo Nobel to handle the case of dispute over trade secrete infringement
4)Represented CIB FINTECH to handle the case of disputes over computer software infringement and trade secrete
5)Represented ZOLL to handle the case of disputes over trade secret infringement and breach of duty of fidelity by a director
6)Represented Group to handle the case of trade secret crime
7)Handled for YUDO (Korea) the trade secret infringement project
IV.IP contract cases
1)Represented Spreadtrum to handle the case of dispute over technical cooperation contract for cell phone chip development
2)Represented SAP to handle the case of dispute over computer software development contract
3)Represented Beta Pharma Inc. (US) to respond to the case of dispute over horizontal competition with Betta Pharmaceuticals
4)Represented PPLive to handle the case of dispute over the copyright licensing contract
5)Represented Allinpay to handle the case of dispute case over computer software development contract
6)Represented Gymboree to handle the case of dispute over copyright software transfer contract
7)Represented LianHuan Toys to handle the case of dispute over the copyright licensing contract
8)Represented MITRO to handle the case of dispute over computer software development contract
9)Represented a famous professor to handle the case of dispute over the copyright cooperation contract
10)Represented an internet brokerage company to handle the case of disputes over the brokerage contract and service contract
11)Represented Amazon to deal with issues related to the commission development contract
12)Provided a pharmaceutical company with legal advice on a technical cooperation contract
V.Copyright cases
1)Represented BiliBili to file a lawsuit against a video platform and respond to the case of disputes over copyright infringement
2)Represented Ennead to handle the case of dispute over the third-party infringement of architectural works copyright
3)Represented a TikTok blogger to handle the case of dispute over video copyright infringement
4)Represented Meione to handle the case of dispute over copyright infringement
5)Provided Shanghai Yiu Fung with legal services to handle criminal copyright case
6)Provided Alibaba Group with legal advice for protection of the course copyright
7)Provided Alibaba Cloud Computing Company with legal advice on copyrights
VI.Patent cases
1)Handled for OSLERthe issues in relation to the protection of the invention patent rights
2)Represented Safe-Run to handle the invention patent infringement, malicious action and other cases
3)Represented VIAVI to handle the case of invention patent infringement
4)Represented Johnson & Johnson to handle the case of invention patent infringement
5)Provided Human Horizons with daily patent-related advice and legal services
VII.Data cases and others
1)Provided legal advice to EMU on data compliance
2)Provided AST GAME with IP-related advice
3)Provided Kakao friends with copyright-related legal advice
4)Represented Ant Group to handle the case of dispute over infringement of reputation right
5)Represented an American brokerage company to handle the dispute over infringement of reputation right
6)Represented a Macao lottery company to handle the dispute over infringement of reputation right
7)Represented WISH to handle the case of disputes over sales contract and E-commerce service contract
8)Acted for German AB to handle the dispute over Tmall store operation contract
Attorney Liu Ming has been focusing on IP dispute resolution in China. Her practice mainly covers trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, copyrights, patents, domain names, IP contract disputes, and negotiating and drafting various IP-related agreements.
She had served in judicial organs for a long time and participated in the trials of many difficult and complicated cases, including the civil cases of software copyright infringement filed by Microsoft, Adobe, Rhino Software, and Alto; the civil and criminal cases of trademark infringement filed by Louis Vuitton Malletier, GUCCIO GUCCI, and Burberry; the criminal case of copyright infringement of ISO and IEC international standard documents committed by Wang’s (2014 Shanghai Top Ten Typical Copyright Cases); the case of infringement of reproduction right of works filed by Animation International (Doraemon); and the case of dispute over patent rights filed by Xu Hua against Apple.
She has also provided a large number of domestic and foreign clients with legal services in relation to IP, unfair competition, as well as IP transfer and authorization, etc., including litigation on infringement of exclusive trademark rights, trademark objection proceeding, trademark invalidation proceeding, litigation on copyright infringement (including computer software), unfair competition disputes, and trade secret disputes, as well as criminal cases involving computer software development contracts, technology cooperation contracts, copyright transfer, cooperation contracts and trademark and copyright.
Clients to whom she provided IP legal services include Alibaba Group, Ant Group, DingTalk Group, Bilibili, Wish, CIB FINTECH, EMU, Lotus Cars, Jaguar Land Rover, Human Horizons, CAA, Ennead Architects, Spreadtrum, Medtronic, SAP, KAKAO Friends, Gymboree, Meione, Lenzing Group, Roche, Ping An Group, Spreadtrum, and CNOOC.
Fudan University School of LAW LL.M
East China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B
Civil dispute mediator of Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Center
2022 – to date, SGLA LAW FIRM, Counsel
2019 – 2022, King & Wood Mallesons Shanghai Office, Associate
2016 - 2019，Shanghai Intellectual Property Court
2013 - 2016，Shanghai Yangpu District People's court
I.Trademark cases
1)Provided daily legal advice to and handled cases on behalf of Alibaba Group in relation to third-party infringement of Alibaba Group's trademarks and unfair competition
2)Provided daily legal advice to and handled civil and criminal cases on behalf of Ant Group in relation to third-party infringement of Ant Group's trademarks
3)Represented DingTalk Group to handle the case of dispute over infringement of well-known trademarks
4)Represented PATEO and SAIC-GM-Wuling to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement and unfair competition
5)Represented Crea Union to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement cases
6)Represented Meione to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement
7)Represented Yiu Fung to handle the case of dispute over trademark infringement
8)Handled for Baidu the issues related to third-party infringement of trademark rights
9)Provided Unilever with legal risk analysis on product appearance infringement
10)Provided Johnson & Johnson with legal analysis on trademark infringement
11)Provided Lotus Cars with legal analysis on trademark infringement
12)Provided HEYTEA with legal services in the well-known trademark
13)Provided Ping An Group with legal analysis on trademark infringement
14)Provided Lenzing Group for the legal rights defense project against the trademark infringement
II.Unfair competition cases
1)Represented Ele.me to handle the case of dispute over unfair competition involving the “choose one from two” policy
2)Represented an e-commerce platform to handle the unfair competition civil case and administrative reporting involving the “choose one from two” policy
3)Represented Crea Union to handle the case of dispute over unfair competition arising from a malicious action
4)Represented an e-commerce website to handle the case of dispute over infringement of corporate name right
5)Represented a valve company to handle the case of dispute over false advertising
6)Represented a chemical company to handle the case of dispute over false advertising and commercial defamation on behalf
7)Handled for Cainiao Group the complaints of commercial defamation on online platform
III.Trade secret cases (technological secrets or operational information)
1)Represented Medtronic to handle the case of dispute over trade secrete infringement
2)Represented MEDIDIAN to handle the case of dispute over trade secrete infringement
3)Represented Akzo Nobel to handle the case of dispute over trade secrete infringement
4)Represented CIB FINTECH to handle the case of disputes over computer software infringement and trade secrete
5)Represented ZOLL to handle the case of disputes over trade secret infringement and breach of duty of fidelity by a director
6)Represented Group to handle the case of trade secret crime
7)Handled for YUDO (Korea) the trade secret infringement project
IV.IP contract cases
1)Represented Spreadtrum to handle the case of dispute over technical cooperation contract for cell phone chip development
2)Represented SAP to handle the case of dispute over computer software development contract
3)Represented Beta Pharma Inc. (US) to respond to the case of dispute over horizontal competition with Betta Pharmaceuticals
4)Represented PPLive to handle the case of dispute over the copyright licensing contract
5)Represented Allinpay to handle the case of dispute case over computer software development contract
6)Represented Gymboree to handle the case of dispute over copyright software transfer contract
7)Represented LianHuan Toys to handle the case of dispute over the copyright licensing contract
8)Represented MITRO to handle the case of dispute over computer software development contract
9)Represented a famous professor to handle the case of dispute over the copyright cooperation contract
10)Represented an internet brokerage company to handle the case of disputes over the brokerage contract and service contract
11)Represented Amazon to deal with issues related to the commission development contract
12)Provided a pharmaceutical company with legal advice on a technical cooperation contract
V.Copyright cases
1)Represented BiliBili to file a lawsuit against a video platform and respond to the case of disputes over copyright infringement
2)Represented Ennead to handle the case of dispute over the third-party infringement of architectural works copyright
3)Represented a TikTok blogger to handle the case of dispute over video copyright infringement
4)Represented Meione to handle the case of dispute over copyright infringement
5)Provided Shanghai Yiu Fung with legal services to handle criminal copyright case
6)Provided Alibaba Group with legal advice for protection of the course copyright
7)Provided Alibaba Cloud Computing Company with legal advice on copyrights
VI.Patent cases
1)Handled for OSLERthe issues in relation to the protection of the invention patent rights
2)Represented Safe-Run to handle the invention patent infringement, malicious action and other cases
3)Represented VIAVI to handle the case of invention patent infringement
4)Represented Johnson & Johnson to handle the case of invention patent infringement
5)Provided Human Horizons with daily patent-related advice and legal services
VII.Data cases and others
1)Provided legal advice to EMU on data compliance
2)Provided AST GAME with IP-related advice
3)Provided Kakao friends with copyright-related legal advice
4)Represented Ant Group to handle the case of dispute over infringement of reputation right
5)Represented an American brokerage company to handle the dispute over infringement of reputation right
6)Represented a Macao lottery company to handle the dispute over infringement of reputation right
7)Represented WISH to handle the case of disputes over sales contract and E-commerce service contract
8)Acted for German AB to handle the dispute over Tmall store operation contract